[Python-Dev] Vacation and possibly a new bug

[Christopher Blunck]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:04:24PM -0400, Neal Norwitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > [Skip]
> > > > The thought occurred to me the other day that we ought to have a
> > > > table on the website (probably on the Wiki) where people can list
> > > > the kind of systems they have ready access to if they are willing
> > > > to help with some tests.  It would make it easier to locate people
> > > > who can "configure ; make ; make test" on more obscure platforms.
> > 
> > Hm, what happened to the snake-farm at Lysator?  Aren't they supposed
> > to do exactly this?  Is Neal around?  I think he's our official rep there.
> 
> Here.  I was thinking Skip's idea would be bad since I'll be listed
> for a bunch of platforms. :-)
> 
> RedHat 6.2 isn't in the snake farm.  Right now, things are in pretty
> good shape on the snake farm builds (I watch them on a regular basis).
> 
> Unfortunately, some of the problems deal with minor OS variations
> (like a specific patching being applied or not), so even having the
> "same" version of th OS isn't always enough.
> 
> I have access to the following systems:
>         RedHat: 8, 9
>         Solaris: 8
>         AIX: 4.2.1.0, 4.3.1.0, 4.3.3.0
>         HPUX: 11.00 A
>         IRIX: 6.5
>         DecUNIX, OSF/1, Tru64: 5.0, 5.1

Neal-

I have an old SGI Indigo box that's running an ancient version of IRIX (I know 
it is 5.x, but it *may* be 4.x).  Would you like to have it to look over?  ;-)


Jokingly (I think it only has a 800Mb disk!),
-c

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